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The move to eliminate the state Commission on Higher
Education is out of line. The commission serves a necessary
and proper function in this state's higher education system.
Hep. Ernest Nunnery, D-Chester, claims the board is
4'superfluous" and said he will introduce a bill in the S.C.
House of Representatives this week calling for the immediate
elimination of the commission. Nunnery said he is
adamantly opposed to recent actions by the board.
Nunnery is being childish. Just because he isn't happy with
the recent actions of the commission, he wants to eliminate
it. If every board and commission in the state has to start
worrying about making controversial decisions for fear that
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Nunnery has really questioned the commission's role and
function for a long time, as he says he has, then he would
have proposed eliminating the commission before now.
The commission was set up in 1967 to oversee all statesupported
higher education institutions in South Carolina and
its members are doing the job the way they see fit. The
commission's decisions are not final. The institutions affected
by its rulings have an appeal route through the(
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Nunnery argues that the individual institutions are better
equipped to handle their own coordination of programs and
that they are also more capable of presenting their budget
and financial problems to the Legislature. Now the commission
presents each institution's budget to the House Ways
and Means Committee.
USC and Clemson may have the power and influence in the
Legislature to flourish without the commission, but the rest
of the state-supported colleges and universities don't. If the
commission is abolished these smaller schools will lose most
of their clout in the Legislature. USC and Clemson will gel
virtually anything they want because they have power anc
influence. Schools like South Carolina State College anc
Winthrop College will only have what's left after USC anc
Clemson have taken what they want.
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To the Editor:
The recent decontrol of gasoline has delighted the oi
companies and taken another bite out of our wallets
Already the price of gasoline has jumped. At the rate thing:
are going gas is headed for the $2 mark. I think it i:
amazing that a few years ago everyone was talking about i
shortage and now they tell us that there is a surplus of gas
Between the oil companies and the Arabs they have got u
over a barrel.
There could be hope around the corner. I recently heari
of the use of hydrogen to power cars. I had always knowi
that there were projects to harness the hydrogen atom fo
power plants, but never of using hydrogen to run a car. Th
commercial said that hydrogen would burn clean, whic
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plentyful supply. It is safer than gasoline because of th
process in which it is put into cannisters. The process c
how the engine runs and the process of how it is made wer
briefly shown, but I cannot recall how it was done. I hop
they can make this hydrogen fuel cheaper than gas. Mayb
in a few years the technology to use this new fuel and t
adapt it to our cars will be here soon. Hopefully when w
begin to use this hydrogen power in our cars, we will be abl
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I Joseph Myei
Freshman, Kducatk
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I sentiments at Carolina after the commission's ruling to
I eliminate all two-year programs in the college of General
j Studies might lead some people to back the move to eliminate
the commission without giving the proposal much thought,
j But in the final analysis, abolishing the commission will not
Letters to the EditorFnnlich
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of freshmen's 1
To the Editor: count, in the end. is for tha
The standardized Revision person to get a test score o
i and Editing Test is given by at least 110 points. Thus, th<
the English department to student who has worke<
^ all English 101 students. In hard and has been successfu
order to pass English 101, jn writing good paper:
^ every student must pass this throughout the semestei
, test. receives an uncompromising
' and undeserved F if he fail!
It does not matter whether the test.
j a student has passed or even
n received all A's on his other The format of the Revisioi
r assignments. What does and Editing Test is multipli
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: not comparable
: to Iranian crisis
To the Editor:
After reading "File 13" in the January 30th edition of t\
Gamecock, I could not believe anyone could be as insensiti\
about the hostage situation as Mark Platte was. To compai
the hostage situation to the General Studies Program a
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The American hostages were 52 innocent people who wei
9 held in Iranian captivity for 444 days. I feel that this is n
something to compare to a General Studies Program, but
crisis that we should be glad was finally overcome. T1
American people in Iran did not have the choice as
whether or not they wanted to be there, unlike the choice tl
students in general studies have.
ger
$>?' THE UNIVERSITY of South Carolina's General Studies
?0' a wonderful program that allows students to attend colleg
who under different circumstances would not attend collei
at all. I'm all for the program, but I strongly doubt "all 2,3
general studies students" (that is a direct quote from M
Platte) feel they are being held as hostages and for those th
do, I suggest you go to school some place else.
Another ooint I would like to bring up is the way in whi
Mark Platte uses President Holderman's and Govern
' Riley's name throughout the article. It seems to me tli
people of their positions should be addressed in a much bett
fashion, rather than comparing them to Iranian authorities
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d Therefore, the entire article in which Mark Platte wrc
' did not place any emphasis on the griefs in the Gener
studies hTOgram, oui snowea now someone can iukc
1 terrible situation like the Iranian crisis and make a joke of
re I feel that next time he decides to make an analogy he shot
do so correctly.
Paulette Bils
Sophomore, Political Scien
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help the majority of the schools in the state. Some may view
eliminating the commission as a solution to higher
education's problems, but they must see that a hasty decision
to get rid of the commission will have serious implications for
state-supported institutions in the future.
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knowledge
choice. Five choices of
possible revisions for a work together to have a good
sentence or paragraph are paper. However, this
given, and the student must learning can only come
choose the revision that is through more actual
most needed. This selection practice in revising papers,
of the "most correct" Surely this added practice in
revision does not mean that writing is a much better
the other answers are indicator of how much a
u/rAnrt Tnctnirl c amo an. student has learned about
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swers are more "right" than writing than the Revision
others, so each answer is and Editing Test.
worth a certain number of
points, beginning with five When a standardized test
and decreasing to one. score is the only final conChoosing
an answer worth sideration in receiving a
one point instead of two can passing grade for a course,
mean failing the test by that as is the case with Knglish
one point. Thus, the element 101. the purpose of that
of luck plays too large a role course is defeated
in the test scores.
It is true that a student Ku^enia Honker
should learn how to make all Krcsiiiiutn, So* ioIo^v Major
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to the opinionated letter wear. Students have as
dealing with students much right to wear outfits
ls wearing plaids, bermudas with animals printed on
? and other stylish pieces of them as those who decide to
clothing. The writer seemed put on the usual blue jeans
Jq quite upset and embarrassed and sweat shirts.
_ about those certain students At, - 00
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who choose to dress in ? _ t , ? .
unique looking clothes. The S'of the s^aUed Dhud
letter insulted these students epidemic" seem to ha the
.j, by implying that the group most originality about them
)r was part of a The "norms of USC" appear
at epidemic, an(* a's0 that tG ^ the ones going along
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propriate to wear only at the
zoo. We must learn to ap
:e preciate the differences in
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whale skirts or credit card go along much smoother,
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watches; therefore why Name withheld by request
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